"I shall be telling this with a sign

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -

And that has made all the difference." (Frost 751)

The narrator of this last stanza of "The Road Not Taken" is Edward Thomas, eluding that the choice he has just made may be the wrong, or the right; but only time will tell. On the surface, Robert Frost's poem is a story about a walk on a wooded road, but it had deeper meaning to him and how he feels about the road. Also, the poem has a universal meaning about life and the choices it presents to you. Further, the poem is magnificently written in the typical rhyming Frost style. Lastly, a sigh might just be a sigh to you, but in this piece it means much more to Frost. Frost's 1916 poem "The Road Not Taken" is an example of how Frost writes poetry enthralling the reader with a grand opening and an unexpected ending that must be thoroughly analyzed.

Frost wrote "The Road Not Taken" while living in Gloucestershire, England in 1914 though he was an American citizen. His friend Edward Thomas and he would often go on walks so Thomas could show him special plants or sights. When Thomas w

"The Road Not Taken" is literally story about a walk on a road one fall morning. In the opening line it tells of how the road broke into a 'y.' This simple 'y' in the road eludes also to Frost's first line of the poem and his choice of yellow ('y') to describe the fall trees. Frost talks about the two roads and how they are the same, comparing them. No one else is on the road with the narrator. He is alone, contemplating the decision by himself. There is a decision that is going to be made by the narrator as to which road equally worn to take with no help from anyone. He knows that the road he takes will lead him forever, foreshadowing that the choice he does makes could be a regret or satisfaction. Frost then said in the present tense last stanza that the narrator's choice was the road less traveled.

In conclusion, "The Road Not Taken" is just another example of Robert Frost's amazing ability as a writer to captivate his audience from the very beginning to the very end of his poems. Frost starts with a simple 'y' in the road accented with the yellow woods surrounding it and the narrator. Later, we find out that Frost actually wrote this 'as Edward Thomas' as a jest for he would often sigh saying he wished that he chose a different route when they went on walks together. This is not just an ordinary sigh to Frost though; there is more underneath of it, much more meaning than just a breath. Also, he concludes with a masterful ending about the choice that the narrator has decided upon. The poem is a stellar example of how life choices are made alone with only nature by your side as help. Furthermore Frost ties the whole masterpiece together with tetrameter rhyme and an abaab pattern in each stanza. As William G. O'Donnell said of Robert Frost though, "Although one person's interpretation may b

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